RE: [EverQuest] zoningYou haven't been reading closely..
I saw a post from soneone once who said he had a Pentium2 300 Mhz with 128MB with a cable modem and it takes him about 5-10 seconds to load. I have a Pentium2 with 300Mhz and 128MB and a V.90 modem and it takes me 30 seconds to load. The only difference between our two rigs is his cable modem. He zones 3 to 6 times faster.
The Swedish post said he took less than a minute. I'll read that as 50 seconds not 5 to ten. That's almost twice as slow as me. He said he has and AMD K6 300 Mhz - didn't mention memory - so either he has less memory than me - or it's the additional hops from Sweden than the US.
Another example:
?have a amd 400mhz 64mb of ps100 ram 16mb video card-banshee
>and an awesome creative 128bit sound card. however i have NEVER zoned in
>less than a minute,
This is faster than my machine, but less memory - zones slower than me - looks like memory is an issue too!
It is BOTH bandwidth AND system speed dependent.
----- Original Message -----
From: Whitmore, Lance
To: 'EverQuest@onelist.com'
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] zoning
How can it be dependent on bandwidth.. my brother has a p3 450 with a 28.8 connetion.. he loads faster than me using a p2-333. and the guy from sweden only takes 8-10 secs. to load.. i think Shane had an interesting comment.. how much extra drive space do you have.. i remember that the installation instructions stated that there is a requirement for a minnimum of 150 mb. Any load times about 30sec between zones is highly unusal. Youve got a problem that goes beyond our disscusion. Like i said before the data that is sent to your machine at anytime is quite compact and requires very little transfer time. Its system dependent when reference to load times..
Lance
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Upham [mailto:shannon@...]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:34 AM
To: EverQuest@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] zoning
From: "Shannon Upham" <shannon@...>
It must be dependant on bandwidth more than anything else. I have a similar
computer as below: 350 128 meg 16 meg video with a cable modem. I zone in
about 8 - 10 seconds.
shannon
Jugit Warrior 10
-----Original Message-----
From: Lary, William <WLary@...>
To: EverQuest@onelist.com <EverQuest@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 6:54 PM
Subject: [EverQuest] zoning
>From: "Lary, William" <WLary@...>
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>Hiya
> i have a amd 400mhz 64mb of ps100 ram 16mb video card-banshee
>and an awesome creative 128bit sound card. however i have NEVER zoned in
>less than a minute, usually more, i know a lot of it is processor
>i have hit zones withgroups and i am the last one to wake up so to speak
>the others had p2 350mhz etc i do have a 33.6 modem so i think it is
>the modem connection that makes the biggest difference, i wish my work
>computer had a cd rom drive installed, its just a p266 with 80mb but the
>45kps T1 connection would surely be nice as opposed to my
>3.5 to about 4.0kps i get with my 33.6 modem. does anyone out there
>play on a recommended p200 or above system req and use a T1?
>i wold love to know the zone times ya get:)
>Doublestar
>
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